Just to summarize, it really comes down to: (a) limited resources and (b)
science moves faster than Debian stable.


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhansen@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:11 PM, marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Il 7/15/2013 1:53 PM, Martin Morgan ha scritto:
>>
>>  On 07/15/2013 01:23 AM, Enrico Ferrero wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the clarification. I guess it's a matter of waiting for the
>>>> Cygwin devs to update to R 3.0.1 then.
>>>>
>>>> In the meanwhile, may I ask (Michael?) to also patch the latest
>>>> version of
>>>> IRanges (I am guessing 1.16.6, according to my logs) for R 2.15.1?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Michael won't be able to do that. Or rather, he'll be able to patch it
>>> but the Bioconductor build machines will not build it -- only current
>>> and devel versions of Bioconductor packages are built.
>>>
>>> I guess I'll ask the obvious, and I guess you've got a good answer, but
>>> is there a reason that you're using R on cygwin?
>>>
>>
>> interation with other tools available on cygwin and not in general
>> on plain windows ?
>>
>>
>>  I would have thought
>>> that you could install and manage R under Windows, and used the Windows
>>> executable from cygwin? If not in general, then at least for your use
>>> cases that involve IRanges?
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>> please note that also debian stable is at 2.15.1, and
>> R-3.0.0 is only 6 months old, same age of 2.15.3
>> So you could not expect that everyone is on R-3.0.x series.
>> As support policy, supporting only 3.x is a bit courious
>>
>
> Nevertheless, this is the policy adapted by the project.  The version of
> Bioconductor you are trying to use is from October last year and that is
> eons ago in this field.  Also, note that a Bioconductor release is a
> simultaneous release of many inter-dependent packages, and that we did a
> new release in March, so you are one stable release behind.
>
> The choice to only support Bioc on the newest stable release of R at the
> time of Bioc release can certainly be debated.  In general Bioc is amongst
> the earliest adapters of new features of R, which makes this a necessity,
> much more than for a normal CRAN R package.
>
> Best,
> Kasper
>
>
>
>
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